On 12-06-20 8:03 AM, Glen Roberts wrote: > This morning while researching Google’s five-year anniversary of providing > malware protection, I found evidence that CNET is serving up malware to its > site visitors to the tune of 151 exploits, 64 trojans and 22 bots. The > malicious software is hosted on internet-safeness.ru and publictivity.com > appears to be an intermediary for distributing malware to site visitors. > > I have notified CNET of the problem but it’s pretty concerning that another > CBS property is making the news again for being insecure. It was only a few > days ago that the Last.fm password hashes that were dumped made the news. > > Here is the link you can use to take advantage of Google’s insight into sites > serving malware: http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=cnet.com. > Just replace the parameter with the site you want to inspect. I recommend you > check out the sites you manage and visit using Google’s tool. > > I've posted a screenshot here: > http://www.internetgeneral.com/cnet-serving-malware/
One might be inclined to wonder, as I did, if it's CNET itself serving up the malware, or an ad network that's been popped. Mike -- The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. - Marshall McLuhan, 1969 _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
